(MCT) – It's hard to rant or rave about technology a few days before Christmas, when most people are looking forward to the holiday and excited about the gadgets they're giving or possibly receiving.

So here's a little game to play instead, looking back and ahead at some of the puzzling things in the tech world.

Happy holidays!

1. Connect the Seattle-born high-tech company with its global head count, as of the third quarter:

A. Amazon

B. Boeing

C. Microsoft

1. 100,518

2. 109,800

3. 170,820

2. Windows 8 lost the old fashioned start button but it does have five "charms" to perform common tasks. Circle the five:

A. Search

B. Update

C. Share

D. Start

E. Devices

F. Settings

3. Google's Android software is now the most popular smartphone platform. Each version is named after a sweet snack. Which of these are Android code-names?

A. KitKat

B. Honeycomb

C. Gingerbread

D. Jelly Bean

E. Ice Cream Sandwich

4. Some American adults still don't use the Internet or email because they think it's too expensive, hard to use or just not worth the effort, according to the Pew Research Center. What percentage of the adult population remains offline?

A. 7 percent

B. 15 percent

C. 2 percent

5. Microsoft's stock jumped by how much the day that Chief Executive Steve Ballmer announced his plans to retire?

12. All those phones are being used to take billions of pictures, and we're increasingly storing photos and other digital files online, in "personal cloud" storage services. The amount of stuff we stash this way is expected to increase by 500 percent over the next five years, according to ABI Research. How much data will then be stored in all these personal cloud storage lockers?